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Northchurch Sign Flattened

AN ACCIDENT WAITING TO HAPPEN? IN NORTHCHURCH IT JUST DID!

At the HCC Council Meeting of 27th March, Lara Pringle, the new DBC councillor for Northchurch presented a petition from the local Road Safety Pressure Group, "Go 20 Northchurch". Local residents have been calling for some time for a 20 mph speed limit to be imposed on the centre of the village.

20 Jun 2018
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Tring Sports Ctr Nick

Tring Leisure Centre - Lib Dem Response to Dacorum Consultation

Cllr Nick Hollinghurst, Liberal Democrat Town and County Councillor for Tring, said "DBC has consistantly negllected our shared use sports facilities. These were originally built and provided at public expense for shared use both by the public and the school. Over the years, access by the public to these facilities has become more and more restricted.

18 Jun 2018
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Automatic Train Operation

Self-drive Mainline Train Now Running on Thameslink Route

Thameslink passengers are now experiencing one of the first self-drive train journeys on a UK mainline - although they may not realise it! In combination with Network Rail's new digital signalling system, trains are being run every 2 - 3 minutes St Pancras and Blackfriars.

25 May 2018
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Lib Dem logo bird projected on blockwork

Catch 22? Is it really such Wonderful News that Government Borrowing is Down?

The Banking Crash of 2008/9 could have been an utter disaster personally for millions of families. While we can criticize Brown's Labour Government for its "light touch" banking regulation - which contributed to that crash - we must also be immensely grateful that they they acted so promptly and decisively when disaster struck. Huge sums of money were pumped into the banks to keep them going and many were effectively nationalised. However this was very expensive indeed because most of that had to be borrowed - at high interest rates. Then for several years the high interest rates meant the debt continued to rise slowly.

26 Apr 2018
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